Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Doozergirl

Generali wrote: »

In a simple paragraph you explain why I've not been with an English woman since I was 15.

In most of the world men and women both enjoy sex and the best way to have sex is in a consensual and mutually enjoyable form.

Carry On! sex is about men lovin it and women hating it. It's like Tom and Jerry.

I'm not a carry on fan, but I thought it was more about nasty old men mainly chasing fit young girls. Would any woman enjoy Sid James perving on them?

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd be OK if they gave training on that ... I've no idea how to load a dishwasher, or what else to do to turn it on ...

It was a dishwasher way back when I was the washer upper...1982 ish! Great big thing, you put all the stuff on this big crate like thing, slid it along the bench and into the machine and just pulled the top down. When it was finished doing its thing, you just slid the crate out and put the next one in.

Someone else did the drying.....but we all put the dried things on the shelves ready to be used again.

PasturesNew

Jobs I had until I was 18 included: babysitting; shop shelf restocking; dish washer-upper (by hand); meat/cheese counter and tills on Saturdays; order picker at a seed factory; lots of holiday office temp jobs; jeweller's Saturday staff; selling cosmetics door-to-door (Vanda Cosmetics).

Part-time/other jobs I had alongside full-time jobs from, say, 18-30, included: garage forecourt/till weekend staff; nightclub cloakroom and glasses collector; lots of telephone appointment setting for double glazing, fitted kitchens, photo studios; answering inbound calls for a Contact Magazine (adult stuff).

lostinrates

Bloody hell, our ground is rubbish put there.

Tree planting going slowly indeed, and has had to encompass a bonfire.


We thought we'd be finished that by eleven, we aren't even half way through!

Gen, I wouldn't think croissants are do hard. I make croissants which are deemed good ( infact, a chef who used to work at Peck stayed with us at last house and was really complimentary....but Italian croissants can be amazing or dire) and you are patently more experienced and patient than me. They really aren't hard at all, just cannot skimp on prep.

They are also the best way to stop eating patisserie. Working with that much butter really does drive the point home!

I would like to find out how to get better results from pre prepped and frozen ones. I'd probably prep loads for freezer for when we have over night guests and I feel lazy. But.....I don't get as good result that way.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'm not a carry on fan, but I thought it was more about nasty old men mainly chasing fit young girls. Would any woman enjoy Sid James perving on them?

It's not just Sid James. Most single blokes (and a lot of attached ones) in the UK are just gross, pervy gropers. They think/assume you're gagging for it and are just inappropriate in their advances. It's a minefield out there!

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

Jobs I had until I was 18 included: babysitting; shop shelf restocking; dish washer-upper (by hand); meat/cheese counter and tills on Saturdays; order picker at a seed factory; lots of holiday office temp jobs; jeweller's Saturday staff; selling cosmetics door-to-door (Vanda Cosmetics).

Part-time/other jobs I had alongside full-time jobs from, say, 18-30, included: garage forecourt/till weekend staff; nightclub cloakroom and glasses collector; lots of telephone appointment setting for double glazing, fitted kitchens, photo studios; answering inbound calls for a Contact Magazine (adult stuff).

Mine

Pre 16
Fairground ride operator
Paper round
Car salesperson (I even sold a few!)
Babysitter
Washer upper/salad preparer
Arcade cashbox cashier

Post 16
Loads of different office jobs/corporate stuff full time and part time
Cleaner
Double glazing telephone cold caller
Arcade cashier
Care assistant for the elderly
Volunteer play worker for disabled children

Can't think of anything else right now.

PasturesNew

Working at the nighclub was OK, except for the unflattering uniform. It was a light blue, nylon, dress, with plunging neckline and the front "gathered" all the way down the front. Not a good look on me.

I got paid, I got a £2 meal voucher while on duty (enough for a small burger/chips), I got a taxi home if required (although I actually had my moped) - and I got free entry any time I wasn't working. With the free entry I'd also ask for "soda water" at the bar (which was free) and they'd actually serve me lemonade

It was good because I could be there on my own, as I knew all the staff and a lot of the regulars .... and it was good because if anybody was going out it'd be there (there was only 1 nightclub in the town; the other one was a fighting palace for squaddies), so it meant I could go out for free with other friends and be in a comfortable environment.

michaels

Have only managed 3 of 8 pages since yesterday evening but 3 multiquotes so will do so now then carry on reading

LydiaJ wrote: »

There seem to be two kinds of mortgage overpayers - the ones for whom wriggle room is a blessing, a security and something to be increased wherever possible, and the ones for whom the temptation to misuse any wriggle room would be too much, who are busily engaged in strategies that decrease wriggle room to stop themselves using money for things other than their mortgage.



Is this drama school as in "stop going to normal school and go to drama school instead" or drama school as in "continue at normal school but spend all possible hours outside school at the drama place"?

Either way, congratulations to both DDs. :T:T:T



Of course. We'll be quite happy to encourage you. As long as you don't post every single day about the few pence you've just overpaid to your mortgage - for that you need the MFW board.

I am the third type - very keen for the freedom of having no net debt on the house but structured my finances to maximise the mortgage in the hope that the money can make a nice profit on the turn. But then I also look at our financial positon as a whole so basically I can tell you that our net account balance is minus 95.2k (although tbh this is based on valuing the rental property at purchase price not current valuation).

Drama school is 3 hours each Saturday afternoon...now if we could just find something for DD at the same time

tomterm8 wrote: »

I've been on the interwebs for about 25 years... before anyone even groked the internet... in that time I've been banned from practically everywhere worth being banned from.

Not moneysavingexpert, of course.

Does that reflect badly on MSE?

Generali wrote: »

I keep meaning to write a family cookbook. Just some stuff about what I make and why I make it as I do.

If I'm having radiotherapy I might have some time on my hands to do it. Something like that would be good to send the kids out into the world with.

I would be interested if it was a sort of semi-autobiography with recipes, you have actually 'lived' the sharp end of the financial crash and the recipes could reflect your circumstances at the time?

DS has a little children's book called Jed's Bread or similar and is basically about a young boy and his much bigger brother making bread together then eating some, that's all the story is but it is really 'nice' and there is a bread recipe at the end that we have cooked together and does work.

tomterm8

Generali wrote: »

In most of the world men and women both enjoy sex and the best way to have sex is in a consensual and mutually enjoyable form.

Er... given that the English race has continued to exist for a thousand years I'm pretty sure that English women like sex just as much as any other nationality.

Possibly they just don't like it with you?:p:D

michaels wrote: »

Does that reflect badly on MSE?

Not particularly, I just joined MSE at the phase in my life where I couldn't be bothered to get banned from anywhere. Just didn't seem like it was worth it

Bit like the political and economic debates, really... no one ever changes their mind so why bother?

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's not just Sid James. Most single blokes (and a lot of attached ones) in the UK are just gross, pervy gropers. They think/assume you're gagging for it and are just inappropriate in their advances. It's a minefield out there!

There's certainly an art to seduction!